[ SECRET POST #2309 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2309 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 068 secrets from Secret Submission Post #330.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 = - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have given up commenting because these days you can't say anything even slightly critical or comment that you'd like the pairing if the other was the top or something like that.

Um, what? There's a big difference between on the one hand offering a grammar correction or criticizing the story's pacing and on the other hand oversharing your pairing preferences. The former is actually productive (even if some authors don't want to hear it); the latter is just obnoxious. I mean, do you comment to people's stories to say, "If this fic was for Fandom X rather than Fandom Y, I'd like it," or to say, "If you'd written angst rather than humor, I'd like this fic"?

I'm guessing you don't, 1) because it's rude, and 2) because why the hell should the author care? She wrote the type of story she wanted to write, and if you don't like the genre, then that's your problem and not hers.

[elephantinegrace]

Exactly this. Writers who throw a hissy fit because somebody pointed out that they forgot to warn for triggers or wrote OOC characters or misspeleld something or used, unnecessary, commas, really need to get off their high horse (I'm saying this as a writer). But when I read something like "OMG I'M SO TRIGGERED BY SOMETHING EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN THE WARNINGS," "Kurt belongs with Blaine not Chandler," or "Joan would never move to California and have sex with Irene," I really want to reach across the screen and strangle them.

Teal deer agrees with you.

[(Anonymous)]

And comments like yours are exactly why no one gets comments from me. I'm not sure why, after you post a fic, you don't expect people to say what they feel after reading it. If it's all love and unicorns, fine. But if you like thinking about twisting the ideas presented in the story and comment about your thoughts you are some evil bitchweasel. Took all the fun out of discussing fic when this attitude took over a while back.

[(Anonymous)]

There's actual concrit, and then there's saying you wish the story had a completely different premise. One of these is useful, and the other isn't. Compare:

"I like where you're going with Character A, but the long bit in chapter 2 where we see her internal thoughts didn't feel quite right to me; she doesn't seem that introspective in canon."

versus

"Ugh, why did you have to make Character A dominant in her sex scene with Character B? She's obviously a sub, and reading her as a dom totally killed my girlboner. D:"

If you're saying you want to do the former, than do it -- nobody is saying you shouldn't. But if you want to do the latter... maybe your choice not to leave comments on anybody's fic is a good thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely a good thing then.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? You don't understand why people aren't ecstatic to find that by merely sharing something publicly, they've signed to receive all the pointless, unhelpful or unkind remarks that might fall out of a reader's head? Not everyone posts their writing for the purpose of soliciting constructive criticism (or "discussion" as you prefer to call it), and the example upthread wasn't even concrit, it was just "bawwwww this would be better if you wrote MY pairing instead of YOUR pairing!"

There are plenty of writers who enjoy "honest discussion" or constructive criticism feedback of their work. But if you insist upon crapping out your unsolicited concrit on those who don't, why should you be surprised when you get a less than positive reaction?

[(Anonymous)]

You put something out there in public, be prepared for a variety of responses.

[elephantinegrace]

Being prepared=/=understanding. I'm sorry when my work is OOC. I'm sorry when it has grammar and spelling errors. I'm not sorry when you don't like the plot, pairing, or genre because it's called scrolling by.

[(Anonymous)]

Being prepared and knowing that you could receive a variety of responses doesn't mean it's acceptable to spew whatever you want, toward whomever you want and then expect them to greet you with hugs and cookies. Using that as an excuse makes you sound like a douche.

[elephantinegrace]

I love feedback, but not when somebody doesn't like something I said was going to happen in the summary or the tags. Criticizing how the drinks are brewed in my coffeeshop AU is awesome and encouraged; criticizing how Hermione would never work in a coffeeshop is not. Criticizing how unusually cowardly Steve is is awesome and encouraged; criticizing my frostshield pairing is not. Do you get my point here? My plot, my ships, and my genre are my own. If you don't like angst/Sebkurt/crossovers, don't read them. It's like reading Harry Potter and complaining that there wasn't enough Katniss Everdeen.

Evil bitchweasel out!